Bruce A. Dixon Big Oil ranks among the most profitable enterprises on earth. But capitalist corporations don’t pay their own costs – these are borne by the people and their environments. Few have paid a higher price than the oil-producing regions of Nigeria, now among the most devastated and toxic wastelands on the planet. Since…
Category: Libya
The Libyan People Reclaim Bani Walid, Driving Out US-NATO Mercenaries
Attacks mount against imperialist-backed NTC rebel regime Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° A series of attacks have been launched against the United States and NATO-installed National Transitional Council in Libya. The most significant events occurred on January 23 when local forces still loyal to the former government of slain leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi retook the city…
Muammar Gaddafi Lives On In The Hearts Of The 99%
Residents of the Libyan oasis town of Bani Walid, long a bastion of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, say the slain leader lives on in their hearts. The town, which was one of the last towns to fall to the rebels last year and was the scene of new violence earlier this week, fared well during the…
President Mugabe Delivers A Stunning Blow To Imperialists And Libya’s NTC
MUGABE TO THE AU: IT’S TIME TO STAND UP TO THE WEST! Munyaradzi Huni Zimbabwe Herald President Mugabe has warned that recolonisation of Africa might take place if leaders fail to handle issues as the continent’s founding fathers used to do. He said the AU should not rush to recognise Libya’s National Transitional Council, but…
Green Resistance Uprising Erupts Throughout Libya
#Libya: Indigenous Libyans fighting to free their country from foreign occupation and murderous NATO-led rebels reclaim several towns. — curtis doebbler (@cdoebbler) January 23, 2012 #Libya: Indigenous Libyans tell murderous NATO-led rebels and their NATO paymasters to leave Libya to the Libyan people. — curtis doebbler (@cdoebbler) January 23, 2012 #Libya: NATO-led rebels gangs patrolling…
UK Admits Use Of Ground Forces, SAS To Quash Resistance And Force Regime Change
Mark Urban British efforts to help topple Colonel Gaddafi were not limited to air strikes. On the ground – and on the quiet – special forces soldiers were blending in with rebel fighters. This is the previously untold account of the crucial part they played. The British campaign to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi’s regime had its…
Muslim Brotherhood the Pre-Determined Winner in Libya’s Coming Elections
*Franklin Lamb Tripoli It appears, from interviews and discussions with a wide range of Libyans including students, lawyers, judges at the Ministry of Justice, shopkeepers and casual acquaintances that the Muslim Brotherhood currently has very little popular support among this pious conservative, Sunni Muslim society. Widely expressed opinion is along these lines: “The Brotherhood are…
Libya: A Country Study
Libya: A Country Study, 1987 – pdf According to the text description, this book was part of a series, “of on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress as part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook Series sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army…
Arab Spring: Egypt Strikes Back
US-funded agitators have offices raided across Egypt. Photo: (AP) US State Department agitators from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) subsidary, the National Democratic Institute, standby as Egyptian security forces raid their offices. Despite NED veritably being run by Neo-Conservative, corporate-fascists who have signed PNAC documents declaring their intentions of acheiving and maintaining a century…
Post-Gadhafi Libya: Naked Neo-Imperialism
The Daylight Robbery of Libyan Resources Nile Bowie While the unconcealed hypocrisy that led to the emergence of a new Libya fades from the public consciousness, the governments of the West are beginning to reap the profits of their investments. Under a mandate to protect civilians, these allied forces armed radical factions of Islamist fighters…
Cynthia McKinney: Against AFRICOM
GlobalResearchTV Established in 2007, the United States African Command (AFRICOM) has been at the heart of the US agenda to secure the continent and its resources against America’s supposed enemies. Now, many are questioning AFRICOM’s role on the continent at all.
